Guyanese man wanted for cocaine peppers found in Trinidad aboard CAL flight
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Written by Demerara Waves |
Tuesday, 30 April 2013 06:28 |
by Alva Solomon Local drug enforcement agencies are puzzled as regards the discovery of some 40 kilos of cocaine on a Caribbean Airlines flight in Trinidad which was on its way to Miami from the Cheddi Jagan International Airport last Friday morning. Well-placed sources said that the 21 boxes of wiri-wiri pepper underwent a physical check at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) and was also scanned. At the Piarco International Airport, scanners also failed to detect the illicit substance. It was a sniffer dog at the Piarco Airport that began ripping through the boxes when it detected drugs in a number of the boxes, according to the source. That could mean that either Guyana Police Force sniffer dog was not used to check the boxes at CJIA or the dog simply has lost its ability to detect illicit drugs. Sources said that among the genuine peppers were man-made peppers. Small balls of cocaine were wrapped, painted in red and real stems pasted on them. A source at CJIA on Tuesday related that the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) along with other related agencies are hunting for a Garnett Street, Kitty resident in connection with the drugs which were found stashed in a quantity of wiri-wire peppers on the aircraft at Piarco. Reports are that the prime suspect, Caleb Caesar, is well known to law enforcement as he is a seasoned exporter who has been under the radar for sometime. The man, a CANU source noted, is the brother-in law of Gilbert Bristol , the man who was charged late last year in connection with the shipment of a quantity of drugs bound for China .The drugs were found in a quantity of fish food. The man being sought is said to be living at the Garnett Street address which Bristol provided last year but searches by police and CANU officials today turned up empty handed. Caesar provided a fake Friendship,East Bank Demerara address on documents relating to the shipment of the peppers last week. |